THE YEAR of YOUR BEST MISFIT LIFE EVER

Happy 2026!

Tired of making Year’s Resolutions you know you’ll never keep?
Want to just have someone who doesn’t know you at all tell you what you should do?

This post is for you!

Here is the CHECK LIST you didn’t know you needed to help get your year off to a great start, and to live your BEST MISFIT LIFE EVER.

• WAKE UP:
  Sure, that may sound like low hanging fruit. But you’d be surprised how easy it is to sleep through life. Even with your eyes (kind of) open. Especially with your eyes (kind of) open. What if this was the year you decided to be fully alert to the people around you? Fully alert to your dreams? And/or the things holding them back? Scary, I know! But what’s even scarier is snoozing and finding out your life has passed you by… I mean, look at Rip Van Winkle. I’m just saying.

• RISE UP:
  Now that you’re awake and all (good for you, btw!)… it’s probably a good idea to actually get out of bed. Again, this can be a scary thing; there’s plenty of risky risks out there. Why, you might trip on the way to brushing your teeth. But then again, if you don’t brush your teeth, well, that’s not good either.

You see, there’s risk either way, you can’t avoid it. The risk of rising up and falling or the risk of staying down and atrophying. Maybe instead of the impossible task of trying to avoid risk altogether, you might want to consider what risks are worth taking. Sure, you might fall down… but why go straight to atrophy? You were made for more!

• LISTEN UP:
  The truth is, you’re doing this anyway. Right now. You are listening. You may not even realize it. You may be unaware of all the noise in your life, and therefore think you’re tuning it all out. But you are listening… to something. To someone. To messages that are impacting how you see the world… your friends… yourself… your Creator… and whether or not you even think there is such a thing. Like that old Palmolive ad, you are soaking it all in.

And, like the aforementioned risk thing, you can’t avoid listening. The question is to WHAT or to WHOM are we listening? What are the messages that are shouting at you? Whispering to you? Creeping in through ninja-like stealth means? This is where WAKING UP comes in handy. Paying attention. Tuning in to the helpful frequencies. Tuning out the unhelpful.

• MOVE UP:
  And now you have The Jefferson’s Theme song on your mind. You are welcome.

You’re alert. You’re up. You’re Listening. Again I say, GOOD for you! Now it’s time to move forward. What does that look like for you? I dunno. But I bet you do. And if you don’t, maybe this is a good opportunity to have a conversation with the Creator referenced above. Cause He knows. And He would be very glad to have such a conversation with you.

So there you have it, my Misfit Friends. Short but sweet.

It’s time to WAKE UP, RISE UP, LISTEN UP and MOVE UP.

Will it be perfect? Of course not. But perfection is overrated. Adventure… and your best Misfit Life awaits!